The Samaritans has dedicated the training room in its Exeter premises to a volunteer who has raised over £75,000 for the charity over 30 years.
Ann Pearce-Mariner (pictured), from Haven Banks in Exeter, has since the 1980s led a team of other volunteers creating hand-made cards, soft toys and blankets.
All proceeds from their sale have gone to the Exeter, Mid and East Devon branch of the charity - and that has been over £75,000 in total.
In the 1980s and 1990s Ann and her team sold the crafts at the old Exeter market for several days a week. Now she specialises in...
Sense, the national deafblind charity, will host a day of activities in Exeter on Friday 24 June to coincide with Deafblind Awareness Week which runs from the 24th until 30th June.
The day, which will include a 4 km sensory walk, arts and crafts displays and tasters in signing and braille, will build on the success of last year’s event which was organised by Roger Mulholland, a local deafblind man who has sadly since passed away. The event, called ‘Crossing Bridges’, will take place at Exeter Quayside, running from 10:30am until 16:00pm, with a Sensory Walk at 11:45am. There will...
Following the installation of a new state of the art Aquagym, the Flamingo Pool in Axminster launches its new ‘Aquatherapy’ GP referral scheme.
The Flamingo Pool’s pilot scheme currently offers 12 fully funded sessions to clients referred, under certain criteria, by their GP or an approved certified professional. Partly funded sessions will be offered upon completion of the first 12 sessions.
Each 30 minute session, led by one of the GP referral instructors and limited in participant numbers, will take into account each client’s specific needs and exercise programme. Water...
Dartmoor National Park Authority has opened its Communities Fund 2016/17 for applications and is calling for community organisations on Dartmoor to come forward if they have a project that needs funding.
The Dartmoor Communities Fund offers up to 50% grant funding for capital projects that support existing valued community facilities and services, or create new community infrastructure to meet identified community needs.
The Fund is supported by the New Homes Bonus from West Devon Borough, Teignbridge and South Hams District Councils and this year there is just over £90,000...
Since the formation of a task force earlier this year, a number of key developments have already taken place. Fewer people now live rough and survive on the streets of Exeter and reports of anti social behaviour have decreased.
StAG: Exeter’s Street Attachment Group adopts a multi agency approach to tackle one of its key priorities to reduce the number of people living and surviving on the city’s streets. It does this by promoting access to resources to help rehabilitate, home and get people involved in activities away from the streets.
Urban birds are less afraid of litter than their country cousins according to a new study co-authored by a University of Exeter academic.
The research, which highlights one way in which birds adjust to urban settings and published in the journal Animal Behaviour, shows that corvids - the family of birds which includes crows, ravens and magpies - are more likely to show fear in relation to unfamiliar objects than other birds.
However, if they and other bird species have previously encountered similar objects they are able to overcome some of their fear.
The East Devon Countryside Team Education Rangers are about to start a busy summer spent outdoors.
Over the summer term the rangers will be running more than 50 visits to East Devon District Council's nature reserves, beaches and other sites across the area, and over 30 of these visits are to EDDC’s Seaton Wetlands site. The Education Rangers will also be involved with the busy Countryside events programme run for local residents and tourists across East Devon.
Penny Evans, Education Ranger said: ‘’Being outdoors is beneficial for children who are able to learn through...
Residents living near the Triangle Car Park, just off Heavitree Road, are being asked to give their views on the possible use of the car park as a temporary bus station.
A temporary solution will be needed during the redevelopment of the existing Paris Street bus station. Cllr Phil Bialyk, Lead Councillor for Sport and Health and Wellbeing, said: "It's still early days and nothing has been decided yet, so we're really keen to talk to nearby residents and businesses about how The Triangle might work as a temporary solution whilst the current bus station is being redeveloped. We will...
Book up for Gulliver’s Travels in Connaught Gardens on Sunday (June 5)
Sidmouth’s best loved garden will be the setting for an open air production of Gulliver’s Travels being performed by The Pantaloons theatre company on Sunday June 5.
The production – to be staged in Connaught Gardens - is a funny new adaptation based on the book by Jonathan Swift and begins at 7pm.
Later in the summer on August 10, a family-friendly production of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales will be staged by The Pantaloons in the Manor Gardens in Exmouth, again beginning at 7pm.
